roccoschili Chapter 1187 1186. Lost Suspense
Chapter 1187 1186. Lost Suspense
Chapter 1187 1186. Lost Suspense
Slaughtering the Pacers with 43 points, the Eagles players did not have the so-called feeling of revenge, and the Eagles did not feel so excited about winning.
They should have won the game. They lost the last game. Although the players didn't have much negative emotions, they were very upset inside. Today they finally let it out.
For the other championship teams, I don't know whether they are relieved or feel regretful.
The Pacers are about to finish their game. Judging from the dazed expression of the Pacers sitting on the bench in the fourth quarter, the Pacers have already exploded in mentality.
In today's game, the Pacers players prepared much more seriously than the previous game, and they were more confident. As a result, the game was unable to fight back from the very beginning.
The strength gap between the 39-win team and the 73-win team is vividly reflected.
Originally, there was a tendency for the three major stars to relax a little bit, but now the collapse is even worse.
Winning can resolve many conflicts, but being slaughtered for 43 points... the three major players are dissatisfied with their teammates again.
Who would have imagined that two years ago, in the 03-04 season, with this core lineup, the Pacers had the second-best record in the league, but now they are facing disintegration...
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On the morning of April 4th, Liu Mang woke up after a long sleep. The locker room was noisy for a long time last night. He was not so tired after playing the game, but even more tired after the game.
But as soon as he woke up, he felt something on the quilt. Looking at it, it was a little loli who felt that he could see a little bigger with the naked eye after a while, lying on his quilt to sleep.
Liu Mang remembered that when he was sleepy, someone told him to get up for a run, but after taking revenge on the Pacers, he relaxed. Last night, he was interviewed, his teammates celebrated, and he woke up to play with the band for a while. The game ended at 10 o'clock. He didn't get back home until two o'clock in the morning.
"Dinah, Dinah..." Liu Mang pushed the little Lolita.
Little Lolita let out a "hmm", pushed Liu Mang's arm away, turned over and continued to sleep.
Liu Mang saw a blister on little Lolita's nose...
Liu Mang was speechless, and carefully crawled out of the bed, covering little Lori with a quilt to avoid catching cold.
Liu Mang looked at the time. It was past seven o'clock. This Saturday, Little Lolita had no class, so Liu Mang ignored her. He washed up, put on his coat, and went downstairs to have breakfast.
Afternoon flight to Indianapolis.
After the first game of the series between the Eagles and the Pacers, this series with the largest record disparity in history has become the most interesting game in the first round of this year's playoffs.
But after the second game, not many people paid attention to this round of the series.
The Pacers are too short-lived, and if they say they wither, they will wither.
Other teams no longer have unrealistic hopes for the Pacers and focus on their own games.
After the second game, the Eagles have two days off. The next two games are on the 26th and 28th. They will play away games, and they will play the fifth game at home on May 5st.
After looking at the schedule, Liu Mang felt that the United States was inhumane towards NBA players. It was obviously the May Day International Labor Day created by the United States and France. As a result, May Day in the United States was not Labor Day, but there was a Labor Day in September.
Labor Day in September...Liu Mang didn't even know what this festival had to do with him, it was already a holiday for him at that time.
Chatting with my mother, having breakfast, teasing my daughter with Alexia in the morning, and being forced to change Ritian’s baby in diapers, the little Loli didn’t get up until ten o’clock, and was scolded by Levia, and then Liu Mang played games with the miserable little Loli.
After lunch, Liu Mang took the luggage that Levia had prepared and went to the airport to meet his teammates.
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After the Eagles arrived in Indianapolis, they rented the arena of Indiana University for training and prepared for the next two games.
The playoffs of the other 14 teams in the league are also in full swing.
The Lakers played against the Nuggets very easily. In singles, the Nuggets couldn’t beat the Nuggets. With team tactics, Anthony didn’t have the court control masters like Billups and Kidd. Given him, Iverson could win 50 wins in the regular season at most, and he couldn’t even pass the first round of the playoffs.
The Lakers easily 2-0.
On the Jazz side, they were lucky enough to enter the playoffs, but they can only feel the feeling of the playoffs.
In terms of crushing, although the Spurs don't have the vigorous posture of the Eagles, they are steady!
Because the Eagles have the buff of Liu Mang’s Heart of the Strong, and Liu Mang usually plays 24 minutes in a row in the first half, they can abuse food steadily. However, the buff of Heart of the Strong has a side effect. Liu Mang’s teammates are easy to be proud and look down on their opponents. The regular season has a very strong purpose. For 73 wins, this situation is okay, but in the first round of the playoffs, there is no pressure, so they are a bit arrogant.
But the Spurs will not be arrogant. They know that they are easy to be upset, so they play very hard. Unless it is the case of the Grizzlies in 2011 who have the strength of the conference finals but actively lose at the end of the season and fall to the eighth place in the Western Conference, the Spurs are very stable in the playoffs.
Boozer got a taste of what the Western Conference playoffs were like, and then he was abused.
The Spurs beat the Jazz 86-71 to make it 2-0.
The Mavericks played against the Sonics, and there was not much suspense. The Mavericks were too restrained against the Sonics, 109 to 101. Although the Sonics shot very accurately, they were inaccurate for a while, and they were blown up by the Mavericks.
Nowitzki's performance in the playoffs this year exploded, with 38 points in the first game and 29 points and 20 rebounds in the second game. In the regular season, Nowitzki never averaged double-doubles in rebounds per game, but in the playoffs, Nowitzki's rebounds were comparable to Duncan's.
But in the series between the Suns and the Clippers, unexpectedly, the Clippers went up against the odds, 98 to 88, tying the big score to 1-1!
The pinnacle captain scored 40 points in the second game, and Elton Brand, who played in the playoffs for the first time, went berserk. He scored a total of 69 points and 30 rebounds in the two games, blasting the Suns inside to pieces.
On the Eastern side, in the series between the 76ers and the Cavaliers, Iverson ran away in the second game, scoring 51 points, 7 assists and 5 steals, leading the 76ers to victory in the away game and tying the score 1-1.
Iverson's performance was amazing, but when Liu Mang saw the news, he didn't feel too surprised. In the original time and space, Iverson in the 07-08 season, at the age of 33, still averaged 26.4 points, 7.1 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals per game. Although it is not as long as the peak period of Kobe and James, compared with Wade, Carter and Tracy McGrady, Iverson's ability to maintain state is much better.
The regular season MVP is still a little different from the average superstar.
After the Heat won the first game, they did not relax. They were eliminated by the Bulls last year. The lack of depth of the Heat's roster is a problem. The conceited look down on the Bulls is also a very important reason, and the head coach is also a big factor. But this year the Heat played with an attitude of revenge.
On the other hand, the Nets, as the sixth in the Eastern Conference, went up again, 91 to 77, and defeated the Pistons in two consecutive games.
Billups was taught by Kidd again. In the second game, Billups scored 10 of 1 and only scored 5 points and 5 assists. The Pistons reached the playoffs this year, and their offense completely collapsed. Kidd scored 9 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.
Kidd is the first star in NBA history who is not capable of scoring enough when he gets a triple-double...
The state of the players is like that, even coach Philip Saunders can't do anything about it. This group of players won 63 wins after fighting for a year last year. After being abused in the playoffs, their hearts are already loose...
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On April 4, the Eagles prepared for more than a day in Indianapolis and challenged the Pacers away.
Every time he comes here this year, Liu Mang feels weird.
At [-]:[-] p.m., players from the two teams entered the arena for this non-live playoff game.
After Liu Mang entered the stadium, he didn't hear many boos, because one-third of the fans at the scene were Eagles fans who grabbed tickets.
Generally speaking, in the playoffs, there is usually no possibility of being robbed by opponent fans of more than [-]% of the tickets. The only possible situation is that the Lakers and Clippers meet in the playoffs. Even in the Knicks playoffs, it is only after being abused by the opponent that the fans defect.
But this time, many Eagles fans don't have to grab it, because the Pacers haven't even sold out the playoff tickets in advance!
Liu also saw some Pacers fans wearing Reggie Miller's No. 31, holding up signs that read, "You can't do anything without the Terminator."
It has been a year since Reggie Miller retired, and Pacers fans are still so obsessed with Reggie Miller, which surprised Liu Mang. The degree of Reggie Miller's dislike in New York is directly proportional to his popularity in Indianapolis!
One person, one city for 18 years, Reggie Miller's reputation in Indianapolis is almost the same as Stockton's 19 years in Salt Lake City!
Liu Mang is very sorry that Reggie Miller rejected his invitation in the summer. It is really a pity that he sent Korver to the trap and almost failed to let Reggie Miller join.
The atmosphere on the scene corresponds to the stagnant atmosphere on the Pacers side.
According to the intelligence and some news received by the Eagles, the Pacers had an intra-team conflict during the preparation day back to Indianapolis. The Pacers did not announce the specific situation, but obviously, the stability brought to the Pacers by making the playoffs and winning the first game has collapsed again, and it is not a collapse. It should be said that they have returned to their original normal state.
The Pacers were like this in the regular season. None of the three major players could understand anyone, but they just made it to the playoffs. They decided to play well, won the first game, and suppressed the contradictions.
But after being abused for 43 points in the second game, the conflict arose again.
This time, the Hawks didn't seem to underestimate the enemy at all. After the game started, McGrady was the first to go crazy!
(End of this chapter)